In response, Fani-Kayode said in a Twitter thread on Sunday that he would not accept lessons on decency from the British envoy.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has replied the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, over the latter’s criticism of his comments.
While speaking in an interview with Nigeria Info FM on Sunday, the British envoy revealed that 10 people were on its visa ban watchlist.
Those on the list, he claimed, were people who allegedly undermined democracy in Nigeria. Llewellyn-Jones also faulted Fani-Kayode, who is the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council’s Director of New Media, on some comments he made recently.
In response, Fani-Kayode said in a Twitter thread on Sunday that he would not accept lessons on decency from a foreigner.
He said, “Nigeria stopped being a British colony 63 years ago, and we need no lessons from him on how to run our affairs or conduct our politics.
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“I wonder who the hell he thinks he is. I am not one of those Nigerians that bows, shakes, shivers, and trembles before the British or indeed any other foreigner. And unlike most, I do not need any validation or endorsement from him or his ilk and neither can I be intimidated by his veiled threat of a visa ban. Frankly, I could not care less.”
Fani-Kayode added, “Neither will we accept lessons in decency, etiquette, what to say or how to speak from a fading British civil servant and a man that represents a nation that has committed more atrocities than perhaps any other in the history of humanity.
“I advise this little Englander to respect himself and remain a silent observer when it comes to the politics of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”